Card database
Skittering Cicada
Legal
Type line
Creature — Insect
Oracle text
Flash You may cast colorless spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, until end of turn, this creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is that spell's mana value.
Rulings
- If the colorless spell has in its mana cost, use the value chosen for X when calculating that spell's mana value.2023-07-28
- Skittering Cicada's second ability applies only to casting spells. It does not, for example, change when you may activate abilities that can be activated "only as a sorcery."2023-07-28
- Skittering Cicada's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.2023-07-28
Market price
$13.29
Commanders that play this card
Use over time
2 public decks with Skittering Cicada saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.
Jul 27This week
Often played with
Across the 3 public decks that play Skittering Cicada. That's a thin sample — treat these as observations, not staples.
3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
2 of 3 (67%)
2 of 3 (67%)
2 of 3 (67%)
2 of 3 (67%)